Monday, September 9, 2013

Not like that!

I was whining at my doctor today, trying to explain my frustration about a condition I have: "I just want to be FIXED!"

(Pause) My eyes opened wide.

"Well," I said, "not like a cat! You know what I mean!"

We both laughed, and damned if he didn't say "Sometimes laughter is the best medicine."



Thanks to Lynn Johnson for her own grumpy cat.


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Thursday, September 5, 2013

Seeing the creative process in a new way

Same tree I've drawn before, this time in pencil
This made me feel better about how long it takes me to finish a work of art:

"That new idea is rarely the end of the creative process. The sobering
reality is that the grandest revelations often still need work. The
new idea, that thirty millisecond burst of gamma waves has to be
refined. The rough drafts of the right hemisphere, transformed into a
finished piece of work. Such labor is rarely fun, but it's essential.
A good poem is never easy, it must be pulled out of us, like a
splinter."
Jonah Lehrer, Imagine: How creativity works

Monday, May 27, 2013

Painting too!




Going to put the following lyrics over it (from I am a seed, by David Crowder)

Oh I've been pushed down into the ground
Oh how I have been trampled down
Lord I put my trust in thee
You won't turn your back on me

Oh I am a seed
Oh I am a seed
I've been pushed down into the ground
But i will rise up a tree

Drawin' agin

Drawing a tree for a friend and mentor.


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It's a reach.

Drawn from part of a brass sculpture. A little leggy, but I really like it anyway.
Forgot how much I love drawing the figure.


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